I think it's a good thing. My worry about the Clips was that he'd be going to a situation where they just rolled the ball out and said put up as many shots as possible, we're not winning anyways.

Now he gets to be a sixth man on a competitive team and learn the NBA game in a team concept from veterans. Plus, he'll get to defend Baron everyday in practice.

Auditors know that there is no system that cannot be “defrauded” through willful, collaborative misconduct eg passing a phone to a coach who is not supposed to be talking to recruits. What do we do ? Bug the phone and listen in ? Reasonable ?

What I think is happening here is that the NCAA has 1) problematic rules that 2) are routinely broken by most coaches and 3) the NCAA typically cannot detect this unless the offenses are extreme , like 500 phone calls, and a way of life, like KS.

Now IU has become the focus to beat us up in order to scare coaches into compliance that the NCAA and institutions ordinarily cannot control.

This professor adds nothing productive as usual.

Now, if the NCAA had a 5 year or lifetime ban on coaches caught twice then maybe the coaches would more carefully comply.

“Three days after IU's recent hearing, the infractions committee chairwoman, Nebraska law professor Josephine “Jo” Potuto, spoke to the Knight Commission, a college sports reform group.

She noted that schools often say, “Hey, look, it was the coach. We had no idea he was doing it. We had a compliance system in place that was adequate and reasonably constituted to check violations, and we didn't detect it.”

Potuto added, “What's missing from that is institutions only can act through individuals. . . . The university has to be responsible for the acts of those who do things on their behalf or in their name, however much the university would say, 'This is not the kind of conduct I want.'”

Did IU really blow it by hiring Sampson? OBVIOUSLY.
Did IU maybe not monitor him as closely as it should have? PROBABLY
Did IU try to do the right thing and report what happened when it learned of the problems? YES
Were the problems even that big of a deal? NOPE
But since Sampson was already a crook and IU hired a crook, it makes it a big deal? I GUESS THAT'S WHAT THE NCAA IS TELLING US.
Should IU have just canned Sampson right away instead of giving him the benefit of the doubt and cowering in the fear of a lawsuit? MAYBE

But does that mean that IU was secretly hoping he'd just get away with cheating and that IU hired him with the hope that his sleazy ways would bring us another national championsip? NO WAY

Did someone do something wildly inappropriate with Myles Brand's wife when he was at IU? I mean, what gives?

I agree about “why now” for a different reason. If we are going to fight this thing tooth and nail then we needed to stand by him. This makes me think we are going to turn the other butt cheek…………..if you catch my drift